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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Age: 36 †
Born: 1802
Born: August 14
Died: 1838
Died: October 15
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Letitia Landon
L. E. L.
Letitia Maclean
Letitia Elizabeth Maclean
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Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Do anything but love or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship never let him know how dear he is flit like a bird before him lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.
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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
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The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.
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I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
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But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
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Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.
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habit is our idea of eternity.
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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.
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Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Sneering springs out of the wish to deny and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.
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